Architect Commerce Cloud (Hybris) -Mountain View, CA

Key Responsibilities

• Own the overarching technical architecture connecting digital storefronts, Commerce Core, Middleware, ERP, and Logistics engines.

• Lead Architectural Review, evaluations, define coding standards, enforce integration design patterns, and ensure platform scalability and maintainability.

• Collaborate with Product, Operations, and Engineering leadership to align technical capabilities with complex business initiatives.

• Design robust, bi-directional integration pipelines between SAP Commerce Cloud and SAP systems

• Define enterprise messaging standards using synchronous (REST /GraphQL) and asynchronous mechanisms for high-throughput data exchange.

• Architect multi-node order routing, order splitting logic (multi-warehouse / drop-ship), and fulfillment prioritization rules based on real-time cost and proximity.

• Ensure platform stability during peak global traffic events (handling tens of thousands of orders per minute) through distributed caching, asynchronous queueing, and database sharding.

• Design resilient integration boundaries with circuit breakers, idempotent retry policies, and zero data loss event handling during downstream ERP or 3PL outages.

Requirements & Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering with at least 5+ years in a Lead/Principal Architect capacity.

• 6+ years of deep architectural experience with SAP Commerce Cloud (Hybris) (Core Platform, Backoffice, Order Management Services, Solr search, Cronjobs).

• Demonstrated track record architecting enterprise integrations with SAP and ERP systems.

• Technical & System Design Skills:

• Mastery of Java, Spring Framework / Spring Boot, and reactive programming models.

• Deep expertise in Event-Driven Architecture utilizing Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS/GCP messaging services.

• Solid grounding in API-first, headless commerce architectures (Spartacus, Angular/TypeScript storefronts, GraphQL, REST).

• Strong database modeling skills across relational (SQL, Oracle, SAP HANA) and NoSQL/In-Memory databases (Redis, Memcached).

• Experience architecting and integrating LLM/GenAI applications into production workflows (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI/Gemini APIs, RAG architectures, Agentic frameworks).

• Familiarity with Vector Search/Databases (e.g., Pinecone, pgvector) and hybrid search implementations.

• Experience designing inference pipelines with strict latency, rate-limiting, and cost-control constraints.

• Demonstrated expertise architecting Unified Commerce Platforms (UCP) connecting unified carts, and managing Checkout process.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have

• Certified SAP Commerce Cloud Enterprise Architect or SAP Integration Specialist.

• Experience with cloud-native migrations (GCP, AWS, Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and modern CI/CD orchestration.

Compensation, Benefits and Duration

Minimum Compensation: USD 72,000
Maximum Compensation: USD 252,000
Compensation is based on actual experience and qualifications of the candidate. The above is a reasonable and a good faith estimate for the role.
Medical, vision, and dental benefits, 401k retirement plan, variable pay/incentives, paid time off, and paid holidays are available for full-time employees.
This position is available for independent contractors
No applications will be considered if received more than 120 days after the date of this post